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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has warned of “significant” deficits in her upcoming budget on Thursday, with analysts forecasting a shortfall somewhere around $10 billion. Read More

A property owner and a demolition contractor in Parry Sound, Ont., have been ordered to pay more than $157,000 after work at an abandoned hospital site damaged habitat used by threatened chimney swifts. Read More

An Indigenous Ontario man has swapped a life sentence for 12 years in prison for killing a disabled drug dealer. Read More

Before Bill C-3, popularly known as the “Lost Canadians Act” came into effect in late December 2025, Canada’s citizenship law limited passing on citizenship to the first-generation of people born or adopted abroad to a Canadian parent. Read More

British comedy elder John Cleese has announced that he will be steering clear of British Columbia on an upcoming Canadian tour, owing to fears that he will be prosecuted for non-adherence to gender ideology. Read More

Is the voting public finally losing patience with progressive politics? How real is the anti-woke backlash? Read More

EDMONTON — The last time there was a declaration of independence in the West, Canada sent the military in to squash the violent rebellion, whose leader, Louis Riel, was justly hanged for treason. This is how a serious country, governed by serious people, deals with threats of its dismemberment. Though the consequences of Riel's execution in 1885 are felt to this day, most acutely in the cleavages between Canada's founding peoples, Sir John A. Macdonald could hardly have acted differently. A fledgling country, not 20 years old at the time, would not have survived if it did not assert its sovereignty. Read More

A quick test for whether our institutions have lost the plot: if a clumsy booking form becomes a human-rights case, something has gone wrong upstream. Read More

If gaslighting were an Olympic sport, harm-reduction activists would be buried in gold medals. Read More

Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director Paul Haggis, who has been behind some of Hollywood’s most acclaimed Oscar-winning films, paid nearly $2 million to a woman who accused him of raping her after a film premiere. Read More

If the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it, Prime Minister Mark Carney might consider visiting the Governor General in the coming weeks and asking her to dissolve Parliament. Read More

“We have the immigration system under control!” Prime Minister Mark Carney shouted during Question Period Tuesday. Read More

President Donald Trump offered a defiant defence of his policies and economic record, declaring the nation is “back bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before” in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Read More

It was one of the worst-kept secrets in Canadian music. Read More

Few people could offer young Canadians a path to follow like Agnes Macphail. Read More

Canadian children had a friendly giant in their lives almost a decade before the Maple Leaf flag flew outside of their schools. Read More

Still synonymous with baby food nearly a century later, Pablum was created at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to maximize nutrition in infants during the Great Depression. Read More

A delicious Canadian classic celebrates its 60th birthday this year. Read More

There is more nostalgia than nutrition in a Pal-o-Mine bar, New Brunswick’s enduring gift to sweet tooths everywhere. Read More

Thanks in no small part to the advanced printing techniques used to foil would-be counterfeiters, Canada’s stamps are the envy of the world. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that if Iran does not reach a deal with Washington, “it will be a very bad day for that country and, very sadly, its people,” as the American military buildup in the region continued. Read More

OTTAWA — During the 2011 federal election, an "orange wave" crashed over much of Quebec and parts of Canada, electing the largest contingent of NDP MPs in the party's history. Read More

February is Heart Month — a perfect time to think about your heart’s longevity and the everyday choices that help protect it. Did you know that more than six million Canadians are living with heart disease or stroke? The good news is that many of these risks can be reduced, and your daily eating habits play an important role — especially as we age. Read More